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THE ELORIST. 
Heavy Rose: 1, Venus, Messrs. Holland & Co.; 2, Alice, Mr. 
Hewitt; 3, ditto, Mr. Wood; 4, Venus, Messrs. Holland & Co.; 5, 
ditto ditto; 6, Green’s Queen, Mr. Hewitt. 
Light Red: 1, Ada Mary, Mr. Charles Turner ; 2, Lauretta, ditto ; 
3, Miss Holbeck, Mr. Openshaw ; 4, ditto, Mr. Hewitt; 5, ditto, Mr. 
Openshaw ; 6, ditto, Messrs. Holland & Co. 
Light Purple: 1, Amy Robsart, Mr. Hewitt; 2, ditto, Mr. Open¬ 
shaw ; 3, ditto, ditto; 4, ditto, ditto; 5, ditto, ditto ; 6, Finis, Mr. 
He ward. 
Light Rose: 1, Bertha (Marris’s), Messrs. Holland & Co.; 2, ditto, 
Mr. Openshaw; 3, ditto, ditto; 4, ditto, Messrs. Holland & Co.; 5, 
Mrs. Turner, Mr. Wood; 6, Mrs. Barnard, Messrs. Holland & Co. 
Yellow Picotees : 1, Seedling, Consolation, Mr. Smith; 2, ditto, Dr. 
Horner, ditto; 3, ditto, No. 3, ditto; 4, ditto, No. 4, ditto; 5, ditto, 
Tiger, ditto ; 6, ditto, No. 5, ditto. 
Hollyhocks—Spikes: Seven dissimilar varieties, 50s., 40s., 30s., 
20s., 10s.: 1, Messrs. Paul, Cheshunt, Herts; 2, Mr. Minchin ; 3, 
Mr. Small; 4, Mr. Evans ; 5, Mr. Wm. Elliott.—36 single blooms, 
50s., 40s., 30s., 20s., 10s.: 1, Messrs. Paul, Cheshunt; 2, Mr. 
Minchin ; 3, Mr. Small; 4, Mr. Baker; 5, Mr. J. Taylor. 
THE PERFUME OF THE ROSE CHARACTERISTIC OF ITS 
PARENTAGE. 
I haye surely chosen a sweet subject, with which everyone is conver¬ 
sant, from the Queen to the peasant. Everyone, however, may not 
have remarked the peculiar and distinct perfume which many Roses of 
separate types or families possess, and which, notwithstanding hybridisa¬ 
tion through many generations, is not lost. It is my firm opinion 
that we can by this peculiarity more truly unravel the tangled network 
of hybridisation, in which many of our choicest Roses are enveloped, 
than by external appearances alone. 
Who is not familiar with the scent of the old pink China (Rosa 
indica) ? it is distinct, astringent, and refreshing, but not odoriferous or 
sweet as the Old Cabbage or Provence. This is the grand type 
for scent of all the Chinas, Bourbons, and some other almost 
scentless Roses, which scent still clings to them as a class through 
innumerable crosses. Should anyone doubt this fact let him take a 
true specimen in each class of our finest modern Roses, say, Hybrid 
Perpetual: Madame Vidot, or Madame Laffay; Tea: Devoniensis, or 
Goubault; China : Archduke Charles, or Beaucarmine ; and Bourbon : 
Souvenir de Malmaison; and, if I mistake not, his olfactory nerves 
will, in the dark, tell him which have the true China blood in them. 
The next distinct family, identical with the China in its habit and 
rapid growth, is the Tea Rose, the type of which, the old yellow Tea, 
had its birthplace in China. This class of Roses cannot be distinguished 
from the China but by its scent, which the French with their nicety of 
discrimination considered to be like green tea. It has certainly a very 
